Prime Minister Shyamal: (Through interpreter) Your Excellency the Secretary of State, Madame Pritzker, dear colleagues, Your Excellencies, Ambassadors, first of all I would like to welcome you to Ukraine. This is your fourth visit during a full-scale invasion. We greatly appreciate your steadfast support. At the beginning of our meeting, I would like to express my deep thanks to the President Biden Administration, the President personally, and all the American people for the strongest support the United States is providing to Ukraine in this time of challenges. Time for Russia’s full-scale, bloody invasion of Ukraine.
We have received all the necessary packages of aid, and we have discussed with you the recently signed 400 million, and we are already receiving aid, which helps us stop the enemy on the battlefield – not Not only stop, but also catch. enemy, but beginning to regain our territories. This is our strategic objective, this is our common goal and we thank you for this understanding.
I would also like to thank the Congress of the United States of America for finalizing the long-awaited project assistance package for our country. In fact it will be of great help to us militarily and economically. To get through this extremely difficult year, on my part, I want to assure you that Ukraine is continuing its reform agenda, its euro integration path. And the EU adopted the Ukrainian Facility Plan, which gives us a four-year horizon perspective to communicate with the EU on a 50 billion aid package, and we hope that in June we will already start the negotiation process on the full path. can do. Membership ran away.
Ukraine is planning 233 different reforms that are united under the umbrella of the matrix, and there are seven broad measures that we have to implement this year. We are progressing well and working as per schedule. We also have a joint program with the IMF. It is on the right track and we are receiving all the installments of assistance. And this is the benchmark, the most important (inaudible) program for us to ensure our collaboration with a broad set of partners.
Your Excellency, we would like to thank you and your entire team again. We would like to thank the United States of America. We are grateful for your visit. Thank you very much.
Secretary Blinken: Well, thank you very much, Prime Minister, and it’s great to see you again. We greatly appreciate your work, your leadership during these difficult times. The United States is committed – to helping Ukraine succeed, succeed with victory on the battlefield, but also succeed, as we would say, in winning peace, in creating the strongest Ukraine, a Ukraine that Who stands firmly on his feet militarily. But also economically and democratically. And the work that you are doing, especially on the reforms that are needed on the economy, is absolutely vital. This is vital to attracting private sector investment, it is vital to the EU path that you have just described, and it is also vital in terms of our ability to maintain aid to Ukraine.
So I appreciate the work that is being done in each of these areas, and I look forward to discussing it with you and your colleagues. But I can tell you that, as you mentioned, the supplemental budget support assistance now arriving in Ukraine, I think it’s another demonstration of the United States’ commitment to Ukraine that is sovereign, that is independent. And which is a prosperous country. This is our goal and we will not stop until we achieve it. Thank you.
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